Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacturing only accounts for five per cent of GDP , and the internal market is small and undeveloped . |
| 2 | So we 're only asking for five hundred years . |
| 3 | My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ . |
| 4 | In the first place , the scheme only operates for five years , with no guarantee of continuation . |
| 5 | So this is not intended for five years old , it actually refers to new vehicles . |
| 6 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei share index continued its nosedive into depths not seen for five years , despite government efforts to stimulate the slowing economy and the maudlin market . |
| 7 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 8 | He claimed the firm had had previous difficulties in getting paid by the council , with one school not paying for five months . |
| 9 | ‘ These are words I 've not used for five years . ’ |
| 10 | To add to W. 's problems , as if she had not enough already , the clinical psychologist treating W. left the area in March 1991 , W. then being nearly 15 , and was not replaced for five months . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't understand why you always seem to be in such a tearing hurry ; why do n't you just relax for five minutes and sit down ? ’ |
| 12 | ( vii ) Persons guilty of a corrupt practice are disqualified from standing in any constituency for five years ; persons guilty of an illegal practice may not stand for five years in the constituency in which the offence was committed ( see above , pp.75–6 ) . |
| 13 | The sun would not rise for five hours yet . |
| 14 | Most of the PSD workers themselves have expressed their relief and willingness to be gainfully occupied for five full days per week , even for the basic financial reward of just their normal UB plus £10.00 per week . |
| 15 | Executive power is held by the President ( also directly elected for five years ) , assisted by a Vice-President and an appointed Cabinet . |
| 16 | Juvénal Habyarimana ) and the 70-member National Development Council ( CND ) , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( Mouvement révolutionnaire national pour le développement — MRND ) . |
| 17 | Legislative power is exercised jointly by the President and the 70-member National Development Council , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) . |
| 18 | A DRUNKEN driver who hit speeds of 100mph during a 35-mile police chase was yesterday jailed for five months . |
| 19 | A GIRL was yesterday jailed for five years for stabbing her teenage love rival to death . |
| 20 | THERE can not and should not be any sympathy for Michael Watson , the mugger who was yesterday jailed for five years even though it was a first offence . |
| 21 | The Glasgow-based solicitor was later suspended for five years for ‘ an exceptional catalogue of delay , neglect and deceit ’ in a number of cases , including Mr Vafa 's . |
| 22 | Both stayed for five or six years . |
| 23 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |
| 24 | Which has now run for five years and could continue for another twelve to fifteen years , until he 's supplied the remaining six albums . |
| 25 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 26 | Jones , 20 , suffered sickness and diarrhoea and did n't eat for five days . |
| 27 | Ca n't even keep for five minutes . |
| 28 | ‘ He has n't exercised for five years and has no muscle tone left but now he is able to exercise in the gym . |
| 29 | I did n't write for five or six years afterwards but I do n't know if that was a direct result of what happened over ‘ The Dark ’ . |
| 30 | Well play for five . |